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according to the pentagon's base structure report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in forty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighteen billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last defense budget and almost equalling the seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars set aside by the new administration for the economic crisis stimulus package why despite the crisis does the military budget keep growing a crises a military expansion related in some way. when we have different friends and stations or sometimes bands that come or even move we have talent night if we have people that want to show off their talent we have a stage. we've done all sorts of things here from a halloween party there's christmas parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah they had they have softene
according to the pentagon's base structure report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in forty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighteen billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last defense budget and...
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had added eight billion and programs that the pentagon did not need or want which would cost seventy four b. and over a ten year period now proportionally that's not extremely high when you're talking about cuts of fifty four b. but nor is it ends and if it can and it prevents the pentagon from prioritizing to maximize the effectiveness of defense dollars for security i think it was a nine hundred fifty. they have a speech to the american association of newspaper editors that sometimes referred to as the cross of iron speech where he talked about you know one bomber equals fifty four thousand barrels of we didn't you know every plane made as a signifies a theft essentially from the hungry but the larger point that he was making was that if you build a weapon of war and a bomb for example and you drop it on somebody that money is just gone whereas if you build a hospital or a school for the same cost it continues to generate revenue for generations and so while we certainly need a military and we should have a smart military. just using the military as a jobs program seems like about
had added eight billion and programs that the pentagon did not need or want which would cost seventy four b. and over a ten year period now proportionally that's not extremely high when you're talking about cuts of fifty four b. but nor is it ends and if it can and it prevents the pentagon from prioritizing to maximize the effectiveness of defense dollars for security i think it was a nine hundred fifty. they have a speech to the american association of newspaper editors that sometimes referred...
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buchy served for three decades as as a pentagon official, commander of the third battalion fifth special force, had e led deployments to south asia and the persian gulf. in july 2001 he assumed the duties of military assistant to defense secretary donald rumsfeld and worked daily with the secretary for five and a half years. retiring from the army in 2005, he continued at the pentagon in a civilian capacity as secretary of defense for homeland defense in american security affairs. before joining us here this year, dr. buchy was a lead consultant to ibm on security policy. please join me in welcoming my colleague, steve buchy. steve? >> good afternoon and welcome to the heritage foundation. we are really glad to have everyone here. this particular subject is a very important one. it -- a year ago, the heritage foundation wrote a really fine report on the tragedy that occurred in japan. and now one year later, they have written a new one, which is again, an excellent analysis of what went on and what we can learn from our friends and allies in japan and how they dealt with this particular
buchy served for three decades as as a pentagon official, commander of the third battalion fifth special force, had e led deployments to south asia and the persian gulf. in july 2001 he assumed the duties of military assistant to defense secretary donald rumsfeld and worked daily with the secretary for five and a half years. retiring from the army in 2005, he continued at the pentagon in a civilian capacity as secretary of defense for homeland defense in american security affairs. before...
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. >>> a massachusetts man charged with plotting to fly model planes into the pentagon and u.s. capital plans to plead guilty. he was arrested in september in an undercover sting operation. he will apparently plead guilty to providing material support to terrorists and attempting to blow up federal property. >>> president obama is determined to make taxes a key issue. he is heading to the heartland to make the case that he is the candidate with a plan that will help the middle class. republicans insist his plan will hurt the economy. danielle nottingham has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: president obama is taking his tax cut message to iowa. he is trying to convince voters that extending bush era tax cuts for households making less than $250,000 a year is good for the economy. >> let's go ahead and extend tax cuts for 98% of people, make sure their taxes don't go up. >> reporter: the president warned congress he would veto the extension for wealthy americans. >> it would not make sense to give folks like me, mr. romney or mr. buffett another trillion dollars in tax cuts th
. >>> a massachusetts man charged with plotting to fly model planes into the pentagon and u.s. capital plans to plead guilty. he was arrested in september in an undercover sting operation. he will apparently plead guilty to providing material support to terrorists and attempting to blow up federal property. >>> president obama is determined to make taxes a key issue. he is heading to the heartland to make the case that he is the candidate with a plan that will help the middle...
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government especially the pentagon absolutely furious. at any suggestion that our karzai government and the millet and the afghan military and police are covertly working with the taliban is a diplomatic disaster but again this is one of those it's an open secret if you go to afghanistan and talk to any u.s. soldier they will tell you they know that the afghan their afghan army and police partners they know there's a secret agreement with the local taliban unit a report came out in may of last year by a man named dr jeffrey boyd in which nobody has picked up on where he lists all the sort of like the top ten peeves of u.s. soldiers in afghanistan and at the very top of the list is the fact that in the soldier said we're fighting and dying. and we're dying in part because our af. allies are feeding the taliban with information to facilitate the attacks and this does not bode well for the fact that these are the soldiers this is the government and these are the solutions we are going to turn the country over to when we start withdrawing our
government especially the pentagon absolutely furious. at any suggestion that our karzai government and the millet and the afghan military and police are covertly working with the taliban is a diplomatic disaster but again this is one of those it's an open secret if you go to afghanistan and talk to any u.s. soldier they will tell you they know that the afghan their afghan army and police partners they know there's a secret agreement with the local taliban unit a report came out in may of last...
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an estimated three hundred twenty billion dollars that's almost half the pentagon's budget instead the money is being spent here on wars in afghanistan and iraq and military operations elsewhere. and in today's climate in congress the environment is not at the top of the agenda this is the most. house of representatives in history so far this congress the house of representatives has voted again and again to block action to address climate change to hold their for. water pollution well president obama recently announced his plan to boost military presence in australia a military buildup also happening and a province in south korea with the pentagon splurging on expanding their military reach there seems to be a little funding left to clean up existing basses around the globe and washington was wall. well joining me now for more is david swanson campaigner for it's actually nice to see you david so i know you are a very outspoken when it comes to the military industrial complex part of that system allows the department of defense to be the biggest polluter in the world how how is this a
an estimated three hundred twenty billion dollars that's almost half the pentagon's budget instead the money is being spent here on wars in afghanistan and iraq and military operations elsewhere. and in today's climate in congress the environment is not at the top of the agenda this is the most. house of representatives in history so far this congress the house of representatives has voted again and again to block action to address climate change to hold their for. water pollution well...
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other hand it's also the case as bruce has suggested that a number of statements did come out of the pentagon out of the state department saying the united states doesn't have an official position on the islands themselves but if we go back historically if we go back to the disposition of these islands and. other territories after world war two we have to pay attention to the crucial crucial role that the united states played in making all of the territories that we now are looking at this was the san francisco treaty of one nine hundred fifty one china was excluded from it and in that treaty what the united states did was to create all across the asia pacific a series of decisions about ownership without at any point spelling out the latitude longitude specifics of where the boundaries ended own burning it's very interesting for we're going to go to a short break and return to history here after a short break we'll continue our discussion on the island dispute state party. motion to be soon which brightened if you knew about songs from phones to christians. who threw stones on t.v. dot com.
other hand it's also the case as bruce has suggested that a number of statements did come out of the pentagon out of the state department saying the united states doesn't have an official position on the islands themselves but if we go back historically if we go back to the disposition of these islands and. other territories after world war two we have to pay attention to the crucial crucial role that the united states played in making all of the territories that we now are looking at this was...
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cut to the pentagon's already requested six hundred. twenty. welcome to have thank you sir pleased to be here thank you what impact first of all will the sequester ration part of the the the automatic defense cuts that were written in back last year when they couldn't work out a deal away have if they were going to effect well it would be a fairly significant impact not so much because of the magnitude of the cuts over a ten year period as it is you have to cut fifty four point seven billion in the nine months remaining in this fiscal year across the board in all the programs without the ability to prioritize that so sounds like a mess it is a mess and also you cannot cut any funds from obligated money that is money that has already been contracted with someone to purchase something and in addition military personnel are exempt so what's left you have to take a big swac out of it well personnel is about a third of the total pentagon. and it but it includes all other sensible cold operations operations but that has to do with all the money to ma
cut to the pentagon's already requested six hundred. twenty. welcome to have thank you sir pleased to be here thank you what impact first of all will the sequester ration part of the the the automatic defense cuts that were written in back last year when they couldn't work out a deal away have if they were going to effect well it would be a fairly significant impact not so much because of the magnitude of the cuts over a ten year period as it is you have to cut fifty four point seven billion in...
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recasting america's global military strategy or just more of the same broad obama's new vision for the pentagon is aimed at saving money while making the u.s. military more lean and mean critics charge this new mission is no different from the one obama inherited from the bush era the u.s. will remain the world's policeman. and. to cross-talk washington's new military strategy i'm joined by matthew rothschild in madison he is the editor of the progressive magazine in los angeles we have christian whiten he is a principal with d.c. international advisory and a former state department senior adviser and in london we crossed to frank jackson he is feist president of uniting for peace all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see what mr obama has in mind for the pentagon. in light of budgetary mandates passed by congress last year requiring reduction in overall defense spending president barack obama has announced a new strategic initiative for the american military in contrast to his predecessors the president's plan. no longer call
recasting america's global military strategy or just more of the same broad obama's new vision for the pentagon is aimed at saving money while making the u.s. military more lean and mean critics charge this new mission is no different from the one obama inherited from the bush era the u.s. will remain the world's policeman. and. to cross-talk washington's new military strategy i'm joined by matthew rothschild in madison he is the editor of the progressive magazine in los angeles we have...
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, outside of the pentagon, there you go. that is still 600 billion, if you cut that, 20 percent, you get 1.25 trillion. >> and wt happens ifou cut, this is my point, what happened to that, what happens to that amount out of discretionary spending? who suffers because of that? >> nobody. nobody, let me give you some examples, we have 47 job training programs, spent almost $19 billion a year, none of them worked, all of them duplicate each other except for three, and we are thinking about adding more. why would you have 47 job training programs? we have 209 programs to emphasize -- >> in. >> rose: are you saying you cut themownnd have one big job program? >> no, have two or three. >> rose: two or three -- >> >> rose: it is clear think one of the things we need to do is create workers so they have the skills to get jobs that are -- >> that's right and we are spending $18 billion a year now not doing that. there is not a metric out there that says we are successful. not on any one of those programs. none of them. so the question
, outside of the pentagon, there you go. that is still 600 billion, if you cut that, 20 percent, you get 1.25 trillion. >> and wt happens ifou cut, this is my point, what happened to that, what happens to that amount out of discretionary spending? who suffers because of that? >> nobody. nobody, let me give you some examples, we have 47 job training programs, spent almost $19 billion a year, none of them worked, all of them duplicate each other except for three, and we are thinking...
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now that the mass i mean it's already been made why is it not a priority for the pentagon to clean it up. well the pentagon's got other priorities frankly and a lot of it said at the top we have these huge deployments there are these big ticket weapon items that cost a lot of money and they squeeze out other things in the budget so you've got you know the profits of companies like lockheed martin and boeing and raytheon and or the brahman that really is forming the core of what's going to come out of our defense budget in the next couple of weeks and so while we're spending all these monies on huge weapons programs that by the way oftentimes don't work there's not room left in the budget that's this dictated by congress in the pentagon for these kind of cleanup and it's just frankly not enough priority and if we set priorities that were more in line with actual human security and that includes environmental health we would make room in the budget for these kind of things which are just not seeing right now and as the u.s. plans to expand that there's the shift now to the asia pacific
now that the mass i mean it's already been made why is it not a priority for the pentagon to clean it up. well the pentagon's got other priorities frankly and a lot of it said at the top we have these huge deployments there are these big ticket weapon items that cost a lot of money and they squeeze out other things in the budget so you've got you know the profits of companies like lockheed martin and boeing and raytheon and or the brahman that really is forming the core of what's going to come...